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  2. Kafala system - Wikipedia

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    The kafala system (also spelled "kefala system"; Arabic: نظام الكفالة, romanized: niẓām al-kafāla; meaning "sponsorship system") is a system that exists in many Arab countries in the Middle East, including most of the nations on the Arabian Peninsula, [2] which involves binding migrant workers to a specific employer throughout the period of their residence in a country.

  3. Demographics of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Saudi Arabia, Data of FAO, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands. Saudi Arabia is the fourth largest state in the Arab world, with a reported population of 32,175,224 as of 2022. [ 6 ][ 7 ] 41.6% of inhabitants are immigrants. [ 8 ] Saudi Arabia has experienced a population explosion in the last 40 years, [ 9 ] and ...

  4. Saudization - Wikipedia

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    Saudization (Arabic: السعودة), [1] officially the Saudi nationalization scheme and also known as Nitaqat (Arabic: النطاقات), is a policy that is implemented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development, which requires companies and enterprises to fill their workforce with Saudi nationals up to certain levels.

  5. Slavery in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Legal Chattel slavery existed in Saudi Arabia until the 1960s. Hejaz (the western region of modern day Saudi Arabia), which encompasses approximately 12% of the total land area of Saudi Arabia, was under the control of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1918, and as such nominally obeyed the Ottoman laws. When the area became an independent nation ...

  6. Sadad - Wikipedia

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    move to sidebarhide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sadadmay refer to: Sadad, Bahrain. Sadad, Syria. The SADADpayment system in Saudi Arabia. Topics referred to by the same term. This disambiguationpage lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.

  7. Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Saudi Arabia. السعودية. Saudi Arabia, [e] officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), [f] is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km 2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia and the largest in the Middle East.

  8. Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia (Arabic: العَمالَة الأَجْنَبِيَّة فِي السَعُودِيَّة, romanized: al-ʿamālah al-ʾāǧnabīyah fī as-Saʿūdīyah), estimated to number about 9 million as of April 2013, [1] [failed verification] began migrating to the country soon after oil was discovered in the late 1930s.

  9. Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of ...

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    Outside Saudi Arabia, in Iran, the Guidance Patrol functions as the country's main public religious police, imposing Islamic dress codes and norms in most public places. The Taliban regime, or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan , also has a " Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice " with very similar religious policing ...